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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"novice users"”.
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Designing Interactive Visualizations for First-time Novice Users
… it defeats the purpose of a visualization tool. Novices have had the problem of relying on text and failing to successfully detect trends in data because it was too laborious. We want users to effectively use visual representations to detect trends in data. Information visualization tools have …
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Web Content Management System and accessibility awareness: A comparative study of novice users and accessibility outcomes
… navigable and usable in the context of the end users experience. Web Content Management Systems play a significant role in structuring, storing and provision content to the Web and have evolved to address the difficulties of manually coding web pages versus the convenience of manipulating their …
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Enhancing technical accessibility: AI-powered conversational assistant and augmented reality-assisted 3D printing software for novice users
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Firewall information and security visualization : improving the usage and adoption of modern network firewalls by novice users
… for computer security which is understandable to novice users. Whilst the technology underlying a firewall is effective, most users have no idea how to configure the software to suit their needs. This research focuses on personal firewalls because it is our belief and I will show that personal …
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Teaching Programmable Microcontrollers to Novice Users in a College of Agriculture: Effects on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Knowledge
… into a future redesigned study where novice agriculture students are introduced to basic electronics circuitry followed by Arduino programming. Readers should design instruction that provides students with the opportunity for mastery experiences like breadboarding and programming …
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Navigation in electronic space: Users' learning strategies of word processing.
… level of proficiency. Out of this group, four novice and six advanced users were selected for non-directive interviewing. The study found that advanced and novice users shared very different thought worlds about word processing. Additionally, it was found that there were novices who displayed …
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Development of a construction methodology of goal directed, optimal complexity, flexible and task oriented (GOFT) training materials for novice computer users: application and evaluation in adults with mental health problems
… computer skills and confidence to adult novice users with mental health problems has to: (a) bridge the gap between the user's capacities, needs, and preferences and the demands of the computer interfaces and their real task applications; (b) consider the ways adult novice users prefer to …
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Towards automatic modeling of buildings in informal settlements from aerial photographs using deformable active contour models (snakes)
… and available PC-based GIS tools to serve novice users informal settlement areas.
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A meta-authoring tool for specifying behaviour in virtual reality environments
… represents a tool ideal in its ability to allow users of differing levels of skill to rapidly create virtual environment applications of any sophistication. Creating such a single, generic authoring tool for every different kind of application is, practically, an impossible task - more so if the …
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3D modeling with silhouettes
… also present a user study that demonstrates that novice users are able to use our implemented modeler more effictively than Google SketchUp, a leading commercial 3D modeler also aimed at novice users.
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The Conductor Interaction Method : Interacting Using Hand Gestures and Gaze.
… everyday lives. Most humans have become computer users in one way or another, since many activities involve either the direct use of a computer or are supported by one. This has prompted research into developing methods and mechanisms to assist humans in interacting with computers (known as Human …
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Remixing physical objects through tangible tools
… for remixing physical objects. These tools allow users to copy, edit and manipulate the properties of one or more objects to create a new physical object. We already have these capabilities using digital media: we can easily mash up videos, music and text. However, it remains difficult to remix …
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PhETA: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Quality of Digital Photographs from Edge Transitions
… Analyzer — an interactive tool that allows novice users to view and understand the results gained from this analysis in a clear and simple manner.
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Self-Assessment and Student Improvement in an Introductory Computer Course at the Community College-level
… in pretest and posttest scores of new or novice users, moderate users, and expert users at the end of a college-level introductory computing class. This study also determined whether there were differences in improvement scores by gender or age group. The results of this study were used to …
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Example-based audio editing
… digital audio workstations (DAWs), which give users access to different tools and parameters through a graphical user interface (GUI) without prior knowledge in coding or signal processing. The complexity of working with DAWs and the undeniable need for strong listening skills have made audio …
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Evaluating Human Performance for Image-Guided Surgical Tasks
… the trade-off between speed and accuracy for users conducting a series of targeting tasks using each device. This work outlines the development and application of performance evaluation methods using these devices, as well as details regarding the implementation of the mobile AR application. …
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i-Seek : an intelligent system for eliciting and explaining knowledge
… Health domains to act as an advisory system for novice users. Most of the interfaces are plagued by recurrent key problems: 1) elicitation - how to ask questions that enable the expert model to make decisions, and at the same time, are understandable to the novice, and 2) explanation - how to …
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SP3X : a six-degree of freedom device for natural model creation
… environment. The goal of SP3X is to enable novice users to construct geometrically complex three-dimensional objects without extensive training or difficulty. SP3X extends the ideas of mixed reality and partial physical instantiation while building on the foundation of tangible interfaces. …
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"""Learning How to Know How to Do"": Enabling Newcomers to Succeed in Complex Micro-Cultures"
… sociocultural-based learning environment to help novice computer users understand the complexity associated with modern software applications. Learners were presented with a variety of procedures, interpretations and contexts of computing from different communities of practice, increasing the …
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MOOIDE : natural language interface for programming MOO environments
MOOIDE is an interface to allow novice users to program a MOO environment using natural language. Programming the MOO involves a variety of tasks like creating objects and their states, assigning verb actions to objects, and programming behavior that changes states of objects and generates …
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